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Community Participation in the Real World: Opportunities and Pitfalls in New Governance Spaces
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In this article, the authors draw on a range of evidence from the literature and from the author's own research in the UK to consider the challenges for communities of "governing beyond the state".Abstract:
The shift from government to governance in recent years has created significant new opportunities for people from disadvantaged communities to participate in the decisions that affect them. However, the weight of evidence over the years suggests that these communities have remained on the margins in partnerships and other initiatives. Governmentality theory helps to explain the ways in which state power persists even when governing is increasingly devolved; however, it also allows for the possibility of 'active subjects', who can shape and influence the new spaces into which they have been invited. This article draws on a range of evidence from the literature and from the author's own research in the UK to consider the challenges for communities of 'governing beyond the state'.read more
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Community engagement to reduce inequalities in health: a systematic review, meta-analysis and economic analysis
Alison O'Mara-Eves,Ginny Brunton,David McDaid,Sandy Oliver,Josephine Kavanagh,Farah Jamal,Tihana Matosevic,Angela Harden,Angela Harden,James Thomas +9 more
TL;DR: A multimethod systematic review builds on the evidence that underpins the current UK guidance on community engagement to identify theoretical models underpinning community engagement and to explore mechanisms and contexts through which communities are engaged to identify community engagement approaches that are effective in reducing health inequalities.
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Remaking participation: challenges for community development practice
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors pose a practical challenge to professionals who work with communities: to name and challenge deeply embedded assumptions about expert knowledge and formal institutions, to recognize the role of those who "translate" between community and external organizational spaces, and to integrate community knowledge and community institutions into participatory development processes.
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Councils, consultations and community: rethinking the spaces for children and young people's participation1
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for the need to rethink children's participation as a more diverse set of social processes rooted in everyday environments and interactions, arguing that children may not feel empowered despite the existence of formal structures for participation.
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Participation in Urban Contention and Deliberation
TL;DR: In this paper, a more dynamic, pragmatic, and empirically informed perspective, seemingly opposite normative conceptions of democratic participation may be theorized as different "moments" in the democratic process.
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An investigation of stakeholder analysis in urban development projects: empirical or rationalistic perspectives
TL;DR: In this article, two perspectives (empiricism and rationalism) for stakeholder analysis are proposed, and two case studies, one regional renewal project and the other an infrastructure project, are presented to verify the usefulness of these two analysis perspectives.
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Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977
Michel Foucault,Colin Gordon +1 more
TL;DR: The Eye of Power: A Discussion with Maoists as mentioned in this paper discusses the politics of health in the Eighteenth Century, the history of sexuality, and the Confession of the Flesh.
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Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought
TL;DR: Powers of Freedom as mentioned in this paper is an approach to the analysis of political power which extends Foucault's hypotheses on governmentality in challenging ways and argues that freedom is not the opposite of government but one of its key inventions and most significant resources.
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Reinventing Government: How The Entrepreneurial Spirit Is Transforming The Public Sector
David Osborne,Ted Gaebler +1 more
TL;DR: Catalytic government as discussed by the authors steering rather than rowing community-owned government, empowering rather than serving competitive government, injecting competition into service delivery mission-driven government, transforming rule-driven organizations results-orinted government, meeting the needs of the customer, not the bureaucracy enterpirsing government, earning rather than spending anticipatory government, prevention rather than cure decentralized government.
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Political power beyond the State: problematics of government
Nikolas Rose,Peter Miller +1 more
TL;DR: This paper argues against an overvaluation of the 'problem of the State' in political debate and social theory and demonstrates that the analytical language structured by the philosophical opposition of state and civil society is unable to comprehend contemporary transformations in modes of exercise of political power.
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Participation: the New Tyranny?
Bill Cooke,Uma Kothari +1 more
TL;DR: The case for participation as Tyranny as mentioned in this paper was made by Bill Cooke and Uma Kothari, who argued that people's knowledge, participation and Patronage were operations and representation in rural development.